Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Ford Pro has begun shipping the all-new E-Transit from Kansas City Assembly Plant—the company’s first US plant to assemble both batteries and all-electric vehicles in-house. The new E-Transit is produced at Kansas City Assembly Plant—Ford’s first US plant to assemble both batteries and all-electric vehicles in-house.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2014

Smith Electric will resume production in its Kansas City, Missouri, facility in mid-summer 2014. Upon the completion of the funding, Sinopoly is estimated to be the single largest shareholder of SEV, holding no less than 19% equity interest. Sinopoly is entitled to appoint one director in SEV after the completion of the listing.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 18, 2021

Project Focuses on Equitable Distribution of New Streetlight EV Charger Locations.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

Orange EV, headquartered in Kansas City, MO, was the nation’s first manufacturer offering 100% electric Class 8 vehicles to be commercially deployed and scaled. Motor: Brushless AC induction. Transmission: None; direct drive. Available now for purchase, lease, or rent; custom builds delivered in 90-120 days.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 28, 2015

Today we witness the latest Toyota attack on electric cars, the first television ad for the 2016 Chevrolet Volt, and a new project in Kansas City encompassing 1,000 electric-car charging sites. Kansas City Power & Light will build 1,000 electric-car charging sites in collaboration with ChargePoint and.'

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 28, 2015

Kansas City, Missouri, will become the latest municipality to gain an electric-car charging infrastructure this year. A local utility company is leading the effort to build a comprehensive network of charging sites for drivers of plug-in vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 6, 2021

A curbside charging project in Kansas City shows what could be done in many U.S. The electric car sales charts aren’t just pointing to a Tesla market anymore. And could the most affordable Tesla for China be powered by cells from another EV maker? This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 14, 2022

The interview preceded the company's announcement to build the largest battery plant in the world in Kansas City. Panasonic expects to achieve a 20% boost in energy density for EV batteries by 2030, the company's CTO said in an interview with Reuters published Wednesday.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Kansas City Metropolitan Energy Center (MEC) will install streetlight-based EV charging stations under a pilot program evaluating curbside charging.

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Teslarati

MAY 12, 2024

It also plans to pause Cadillac XT4 production at its Fairfax Assembly Plant in Kansas City until January 2025. GM says goodbye to the standard Chevy Bolt EV — again General Motors plans to modify its Kansas City assembly plant for the next-generation Chevy Bolt EV and Cadillac XT4.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Proposed streetlight charging station for Kansas City (via Kansas City MEC) Some municipalities in the U.S. Two companies—AmpUp and EVSE—announced recently that they had been contracted by the Los Angeles Bureau of Street Lighting to add 150 chargers to streetlight poles in the city.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2009

Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation ( SEV US ) has selected Kansas City as the site for its US assembly plant. The new assembly plant will be located at a portion of an airline overhaul base at Kansas City International (KCI) Airport and is expected to create 120 jobs by 2010. The SEV US Newton. Click to enlarge.

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Hundreds of the vehicles rolled out this summer in more than a dozen cities, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Amazon is ready for its first-ever holiday season with its fleet of custom electric delivery vehicles designed by Rivian.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2023

Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant will add a third crew in April to increase production of the best-selling Transit and E-Transit vans In addition to production increases, Ford is studying ways to boost output at Dearborn Truck Plant to meet continued strong demand for the gas and PowerBoostTM hybrid models of the F-150.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Two contractors from the local Kansas City area, Emery Sapp & Sons Inc., The facility will be located at the Astra Enterprise Park site and will once again make the location a key economic driver for the region. and Kissick Construction Co.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2022

Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

Panasonic Energy plans to develop the project at a property in Kansas, which is expected to drive significant economic activity and opportunities for the local economy and could create up to 4,000 new jobs and result in an investment of approximately $4 billion. The company has identified a site in De Soto, Kansas for this potential project.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Kansas City International Airport has four 30-foot BYD battery-electric K7s, and BYD’s largest airport customer to date, Los Angeles World Airports, has ordered 20 of BYD’s 60-foot articulated K11Ms. The vehicles carry 22 passengers and luggage; the vehicles they replaced only carried 14 passengers.

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Electric Cars Report

JULY 21, 2022

will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities. Starting today, customers across the U.S.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 8, 2024

billion to build a new EV production hub in Ohio, and General Motors, with its $391 million Chevy Bolt investment at its plant in Kansas City. That said, many of those companies have pressed forward with EV investments, including Honda, which has allocated $4.4 Images: Hyundai] Become a TTAC insider.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Kansas City,Missouri, will benefit from a new Ford Transit Assembly Plant when the product joins the North American line-up in 2013. Ford has announced that it will invest $1.1billion in a new body shop, new tooling in the Final Assembly area, an upgraded paint shop and an all-new integrated stamping plant.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2022

Ford Pro is now shipping the first production units of its all-electric E-Transit van to customers across Europe from the Ford Otosan factory in Kocaeli, Turkey, a milestone that closely follows the start of deliveries to US customers from Kansas City Assembly Plant in February.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As part of the partnership, Custom Truck will offer Battle Motor’s full cabover line including electric trucks, as well as parts and service to the Kansas City, MO market and other cities. EV technology developer Battle Motors acquired commercial vehicle OEM Crane Carrier Company in 2021 ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2016

Supported by partners, Clean City Coalitions and corporate sponsors, Alliance AutoGas is embarking on a 5300+ mile, 12-city, cross-country road trip—the Alliance AutoGas Coast-to-Coast Clean Air Ride —with its record-setting propane autogas F-150.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Ford’s Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan today makes America’s best selling vehicle—the Ford F-150—and started Ford’s industry-leading closed-loop aluminum recycling innovation ( earlier post ), which was then expanded to other F-150 manufacturing facilities including Dearborn Stamping, Kansas City Truck and Buffalo Stamping.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Investors in Paseo Biofuels, LLC, the Missouri Soybean Association (MSA) and Cargill announced an expansion to the Paseo biodiesel plant in Kansas City, Mo. It is located near the Paseo Bridge in Kansas City, Mo. that will increase biodiesel production capacity by 40%. The business model has been ideal.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2023

The Ford E-Transit BEVs are manufactured in Kansas City, Missouri. These domestically sourced vehicles will be 100% electric and are part of the 21,000 COTS vehicles included in the Postal Service’s vehicle acquisition plan announced in December 2022.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The Kansas City region remains committed to displacing diesel fuel with cleaner-burning CNG. Recent vehicle replacements by the City of Kansas City, Missouri and the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) will displace an anticipated 5 million total gallons of diesel over the life of the vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2020

The F-150 is assembled at Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant in Dearborn, Michigan, and Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Missouri. Power is accessible through in-cabin outlets and up to four cargo bed-mounted 120-volt 20-amp outlets, with a 240-volt 30-amp outlet on the 7.2-kilowatt kilowatt version.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2014

Kansas City-based Smith Electric Vehicles has become the latest electric-vehicle building startup to cease operations--though the company says it isn''t shutting its doors for good. According to Kansas City Business Journal, the.' The firm builds electrically-powered commercial vehicles both in the U.S.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

That’s part of a mayoral target to add 10,000 streetlight EV chargers throughout the City of Angels. Kansas City and New York began testing the concept in 2021, with the latter reporting high utilization rates. Seattle in 2022 announced plans to install curbside EV chargers, albeit only by request.

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Electrek

JANUARY 26, 2022

Ford’s versatile E-Transit 126-mile electric sprinter/cargo/van platform began production from its Kansas City, Missouri plant. Deliveries begin in a few weeks. I drove it, but drive impressions have to wait.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Seattle in 2022 announced plans to install curbside EV chargers by request, while Kansas City and New York City began testing the concept in 2021, with the latter reporting high utilization rates. In addition to L.A., metro areas like New York, Chicago, and Detroit.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

CHECK OUT: Kansas City Power & Light To Build 1,000 Electric-Car Charging Sites (Jan 2015) A. But efforts are not limited to the Golden State. If one electric utility has its way, more electric cars will soon be plying the roads of America's heartland.

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Teslarati

JULY 28, 2024

Instead, the automaker says it will focus its autonomy efforts on the next generation of the Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle (EV) , set to be produced at the automaker’s Kansas City assembly plant. RELATED: Cruise leadership pledges more transparency, greater culture of safety in new letter What are your thoughts?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2021

It will be built alongside the Transit at Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Missouri. To date, more than 450 commercial customers in North America, including 200 top fleets and fleet management companies, have said they’re interested in purchasing the E-Transit.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Houston, Kansas City, Kansas; Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York City, Orlando, Fla.; Today, more than 4,700 intersections support both the “time-to-green” and GLOSA functionalities. Enabled metro areas include: Dallas, Denver, Gainesville, Fla.; Phoenix, Portland, Ore.; San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.

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